Talk:Saya no Uta: The Song of Saya

English Translation?

It should mention the English translation. A group is translating it into English. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.34.133.203 (talk) 14:51, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Removal of "Inspiration"

I have removed the whole "Inspiration" section, because of two reasons. First, the sources that were included do not meet WP:RS--blogs are almost never reliable sources, except for rare cases when written by established experts in the field. The other sources were youtube videos; those are almost never RS because they're often copyvios (were the walkthroughs made by the company, or by someone independent? If the latter, it's a copyvio), and because even when they're ok, they're still a primary sources, meaning we can only quote them for exactly what they say. And the way they were treated was original research. As wikipedia editors, we cannot draw our own conclusions about the place someone's inspiration comes from, or what something is alluding to (like the Silver Key info), etc. We may only include these interpretations if they are cited to reliable sources. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:22, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

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In regard to the constant removal of the lolicon genre tag

I have noticed that lolicon is constantly being removed from the genre tags so I will paraphrase what I have said when it was first edited out citing "marketing".

"Regardless of marketing, half of the entire story is written in such a way, centered on a lovecraftian take on Lolita and lolicon storytelling and conventions, with the main protagonist being obsessive over what he delusionally discribes as a "little girl" and even has sex with her on multiple occasions. Saya's mannerisms are also extremely childish in the first half of the story, matching up with the stereotypical loli archetype."

As such, I have chosen to undo it's removal. Anybody who can make a case as to why it's not lolicon should do so here. Samalik16 (talk) 14:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Page name

Not sure I dig the choice to use both the English and Japanese names for the page title. I moved it to the English title cause I figured that it'd be better to call it the English name, but moving it back to Saya no Uta per WP:COMMONNAME would be an entirely fair choice to make. Using both titles feels weird, though. I'm not gonna make a big deal of it being called one way or the other, I don't care that much whether it's using the English or Japanese title, but I think it would be better to pick one or the other and stick with it. Though, ultimately if consensus is that using both titles is better, whatever? I also don't care that much if we stick with that, it's just that it's a little odd in my opinion.

If we want to move it back to Saya no Uta (which again I should make clear, I 100 percent support doing if that's what people wanna do), we should tag the redirect page currently located there for CSD under G6 and then move the page back where it started. Which I guess we wouldn't need to do if I hadn't moved it in the first place, but ah well. Price of boldness. ostensibly singular userpage (inquire within) 04:38, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

I reverted the move, which was of non-standard construction. I have no preference between "Saya no Uta" and "The Song of Saya". I saw that the game is called The Song of Saya on Steam and that's what the previous title was so I defaulted to that. I have no familiarity with this product otherwise. "Saya no Uta (Song of Saya)" is completely against naming conventions. Axem Titanium (talk) 02:40, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Looking at the sources, it does appear that Saya no Uta is the somewhat more common name, which seems to be a product of the fact that this visual novel was quite well known by its Japanese title in the English language prior to its official release, due to its writer Gen Urobuchi becoming a well known figure in English-speaking anime fandom and thus the game attracting interest as an earlier work of his. So User:Samalik16's argument that it should be called Saya no Uta per WP:COMMONNAME is an entirely fair one. Due to the choice of the official English localization to use "Saya no Uta" as a subtitle, in more recent sources it tends to go either way, or use both, so I would say the page can be plausibly named either. A consensus as to which to use should obviously be reached first, though. But I have no objection one way or the other. If no one objects further to the current name, then it's probably fine to just leave it like it is. ostensibly singular userpage (inquire within) 03:53, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

I'd prefer the original title alone since that's what most people in the VN sphere know it as, but I'd vouch for a "dual title" if it means keeping "Saya no Uta" in the title. Samalik16 (talk) 07:21, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 18 September 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: move to "Saya no Uta: The Song of Saya" as it seems to be the best compromise option given UtherSRG (talk) 19:46, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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The Song of Saya → Saya no Uta – A short while ago, I moved this page from the original Japanese title to the current title (its official localized English title), thinking it preferable to use that title as it is the official title of the game in English. Another user, Samalik16, as can be seen in the discussion above, disagreed and opted to move the page to "Saya no Uta (Song of Saya)" arguing WP:COMMONNAME. (It was later moved back to the current title per WP:TITLE.) The subject is generally referred to by both names interchangably in various sources, in part due to the game becoming known for its association with Gen Urobuchi prior to being officially localized, and the eventual offical English release using the Japanese name as a subtitle (or the English name as a subtitle for the Japanese name? It's hard to tell).

In any case, given the disagreement on which title is preferred, I thought it best to seek consensus from the community. I should make clear, I don't actually have a strong preference one way or the other. The page can very well be called The Song of Saya or Saya no Uta, both are perfectly valid titles as both are recognizably associated with the subject, but I believe we ought to pick one or the other and stick with it. I support whichever title everyone else prefers. ostensibly singular userpage (inquire within) 17:44, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

revert to original japanese name. I've already given my reason in the talk article above. Samalik16 (talk) 22:53, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

• Support Per WP:COMMONNAME. Even the official English release uses the "Saya no Uta" name first on both GOG and Kotaku, I am not sure how much heavier evidence is needed to show that "The Song of Saya" is not the WP:COMMONNAME, as otherwise it would have been a simple decision to just call it "The Song of Saya". Samalik16 went about this incorrectly, as it should have been listed at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requests to revert undiscussed moves, not move warred back to a totally different title. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:29, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:USEENGLISH. Sergecross73 msg me 17:59, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

  @Sergecross73: Per the literal first line of that policy: "The title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language". Saya No Uta is absolutely the most common version of the name, even in English. In a similar situation, Yume Nikki is not at Dream Diary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:29, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

  I'm aware of the guideline, I'm just not particularly convinced by anyone's COMMONNAME argument so far though. The nom said they were used interchangeably, and your argument seemed to hinge on the usage of...two websites? And it's not like it unanimous at distributors - Steam, arguably the biggest storefront in existence, uses the English name. Metacritic uses one, while Opencritic uses the other. Both seem widely used to me, which is why I'm for following WP:USEENGLISH. Sergecross73 msg me 13:57, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

• Support with subtitle - A quick google search indicates to me that The Song of Saya is not the common name (a Polygon article refers to it that way, and an RPS article qualifies it with (Saya no Uta)). Given how many RS (Kotaku, Escapist, HardcoreGamer, PC Gamer) use the English translation as a subtitle or don't use it at all, I think the most appropriate page name might be Saya no Uta: The Song of Saya, which I see as fitting nicely with WP:CRITERIA. Failing that, Saya no Uta is preferable to The Song of Saya, I think. However, a much less clear situation than Yume Nikki, which has never been referred to by its English translation, as far as I know. ~Bluecrystal004 ^{(talk · contribs)} 04:02, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.